I have never tested and never got the "miracle shots". Never stopped living normally. Got my cold and recovered. Still alive. Meanwhile, Fauci stopped living for 2 years, had 4 shots and still got serious Covid. Am I doing this wrong?
Stop thinking. You are not qualified to do independent thinking. Do you have a university certified document that allows you to use the brain? An open mind is a very dangerous organ . Tongue firmly in cheek ; yes you are definitely doing it all wrong. Where can we gather? the unwashed, unvaxed, unsick, deploreables?
Vaccination and weight loss are the only things that are going to “help” us? What about the studies showing low Vitamin D levels being a marker for adverse Covid effects? Getting Vitamin D levels above 50 should be everyone’s goal, which is not a tremendous feat.
Our elderly, those at highest risk are not provided Vitamin D testing by Medicare. Yet another failure of our medical system and a government that prefers to only kowtow to Big Pharma
I guess gargling and nose sanitation are taboo as well. Interesting, there is a classic poster from the 1918 Flu Epidemic. One of its pieces of advice was to gargle with salt water after being out in public. 100 years ago...
Forget the testing for D. Simply recommend 2000 units twice daily as our esteemed Dr Fauci does but won't recommend. Certainly those 4000 units aren't going to cause any harm and may be adequate for most. Done daily, it builds up over time. That along with mouth/nasal sanitation could help prevent infection. Not at all sure that these inexpensive tools advocated in the adverts wouldn't do much more over forcing expensive experimental drugs with known deficiencies.
I've come to like and respect Dr. Prasad. But he's got a glaring blind spot here. He says we should get rid of all the home tests because they don't improve outcomes:
"There is no high quality evidence we are better off [with home tests]. To my knowledge, and anyone is free to correct me in the comments, there are zero cluster RCTs showing testing slows spread, or more importantly improves any meaningful outcome (such as number of people getting very sick), in ANY setting. This is the burden that pro-test people face. Prove it helps."
Good stuff.
BUT then he says, "Vaccines and weight loss are all we can do to lower our risk of getting very sick from covid. But we cannot avoid infection. COVID 19 vaccines currently offer such poor vaccine effectiveness against symptomatic disease and transmission that near total spread is inevitable. Then, variants will reinfect us many times over in our long lives. Halting this is not possible."
So he admits that the vaccines don't stop infection or transmission. Yes, true. But then he unequivocally says that vaccines and weight loss will keep you from getting very sick from Covid. *But there are no high quality cluster RCTs of the vaccines either!* They blew up the placebo arm! There is no control group. So they don't know if vaccines actually reduce hospitalizations and deaths because they're not comparing two groups, vaccinated and unvaccinated, and following them for an extended period of time. In his own words, *prove it.* Prove the vaccines do anything to improve Covid outcomes. There is no proof.
It's July 1st, 2022 and both the Canadian PM (Trudeau) as well as US President Biden have extended travel bans for unvaccinated travelers. My unvaccinated son-in-law, living in New Jersey (business) cannot visit my unvaccinated daughter who lives in Toronto and vice versa. What's going on here, is it pure politics or am I missing something?
I admire you and appreciate your willingness to speak out, but in all honesty, I can go with some of this but I cannot go with this notion that vaccines and weight loss are the only things that can help us with Covid. Covid is incredibly responsive to optimal vitamin D levels, other assorted vitamins, early treatment with off-label drugs, healthy cleansing diet, sunshine, fresh air, and yes, naturopathic treatment and herbal medicines, including nasal and throat treatments and sprays with providone iodine and/or essential oils, and more. Why would you say this while ignoring the glaring safety signals of these highly questionable, clearly experimental shots (with no long-term safety data) that are screaming at us from around the world?
Good points Vinay, even though some folks could perhaps whine that "inductive backfilling was used by Dr. Prasad".
You seem to have left out one egregious "side benefit" of all the almost willy-nilly PCR testing game -- viz. the horrendously misleading, greatly publicized, bullshit reports in every state where the novel but nutty concept of "PCR test positivity rate" was ballyhooed over and over and over, and employed with zeal, yet was IN FACT a "conceived metric" whose actual legitimacy was never explained logically by anybody. How could this synthetic "measure" show anything dependable with regard to the tasks of: (a) Detecting accurately variations in reality or (b) Guiding day-to-day, rational public health reactions by a state health department? In my state (Minnesota) the top bureaucrat in the our department of health was at one point early in the pandemic seen on local TV in a news conference pleading with citizens, "We need people to come in and get tested right now. . . .let's wash out those positives and drive down our test positivity rate". This *astonishing statement* was actually made! Even soybean farmers our there in rural Minnesota hearing this might have also heard the damp plop-plop of something hitting the barn floor. This scenario occurred at a time when daily TPR values in Minnesota (10 per cent and up) were being deemed by the Big Cigars "way too high for comfort". In consequence, the "numerical evidence" (TPR numbers) automatically had triggered unpleasant, unpopular, and added legal restrictions by our gub-ment affecting adversely various business operations and public behaviors. This very revealing set of events I have just outlined actually transpired and I did not make it up -- and this was in a state that repeatedly is said to have "a high-quality public health enterprise". My attempts to seek clarification of how "TPR data" could rationally guide public health decision-making were never answered by anybody in or out of state government. God help us.
My office requires we test once a week. It’s going super well - 75% of my department is out this week with Covid.
I also noticed that the at home test kits they give us have a sticker that says “New Exp Date 11/30/2022 per FDA authorization” when the original exp date was May 2022. Now of course FDA expiration dates are extremely stupid anyways, but it just proves how desperate they are.
Wow. I completely agree with this! People are obsessed! I may have had covid a few weeks ago, didn’t even consider testing, followed the FLCCC protocol, and felt better in a few days.
We have to get away from it, but my friends tell me that the schools require it, and many employers too (I’m retired, thank God).
Thanks for a rational viewpoint, I’ll definitely be passing this on!
I also followed the FLCCC protocol (along with the rest of my immediate family of 5) and we all got better within a couple of days. Anecdotally, it works great and I seem to have fared far better than those who listened to the establishment experts. Are you aware of anyone who followed the FLCCC protocol and got really sick? Because I am not. I would be totally open to hearing from someone who says "I followed the FLCCC protocol and it didn't work at all. I think it's a fraud," but I haven't heard from that person yet. It sure would be great if they could run large RCTs of the actual FLCCC protocol, as opposed to fraudulent trials like TOGETHER.
Why in the world would you follow the FLCCC protocol if you did not know whether or not you actually had covid? Not saying it is a bad protocol, but just like with any medical intervention, should only be used when appropriate and necessary.
1) We definitely had covid, based on symptoms, exposure, and, yes, positive home tests;
2) The FLCCC protocol is actually safe;
3) even if we had some other viral infection, the FLCCC protocol seems like a reasonable intervention given the IVM has broad antiviral effects and is safer than Tylenol.
It would be great to have more and better evidence on this protocol, but given the extreme corruption in BigPharma and their regulatory pets, that just ain't gonna happen. So we have to make decisions with imperfect information. Such is life. In this instance, it all worked out well.
I think you are correct about the Covid tests. However, optimal Vitamin D levels are a factor in adverse Covid effects. Even the Irish government has acknowledged this. See my video: https://mathewaldred.substack.com/p/vitamin-d-and-fake-news Also, is there not a problem with sticking to large scale placebo controlled randomized clinical trials that only the government can afford to fund? Do you see the problem?
Amen!!! Thank you for this!! I’ve been trying to get my extended family and friends to see this about testing but so many just want to continue testing all the time, before every gathering! It’s insane. I will gladly share this far and wide!
"older and thus a Paxlovid candidate" as in older and covid vaxxine candidate ( as in dr. Malone propaganda) ? You, people, need to clear this up as soon as possible, because if a poison is a poison, is not good for anyone, simple as that.
We are not and we will not be confused, because we are paying attention. People who want to get us confused are called manipulators. They never try to rid of confusions, they build their theories on them.
Yes, my son missed ten days of school and a week of his Little League season when he was 100% healthy, only because of quarantines protocols related to testing. Before this year, he had never missed a single day of school ever.
"Vaccines and weight loss are all we can do to lower our risk of getting very sick from covid."
Wrong. Weight loss is great, and anyone who is overweight should try to get back to a healthy weight for all sorts of reasons, but there is a whole cornucopia of nutriceuticals one can take that lower the risk of getting very sick from covid. Why pretend that the mountain of evidence proving this doesn't exist? Covid19 is an extremely treatable, low-cost-to-treat disease. The fact that there has been a well-financed, coordinated effort to hide this fact from the public is one of the major scandals of the Covid19 pandemic. https://c19early.com/
Had to test for the first time in order to get a green check on my phone from some company making money processing testing for convention attendance. Followed the instructions, tested within the prescribed 24 hour before convention window, photographed the negative test result, uploaded it to said company. Rife w/ opportunity to lie. Next day showed my check, picked up my badge, and then spent four days socializing with several thousand people at the convention and random people in the city before flying home.
Received this totally predictable and unactionable notice a week later:
"We what to make you aware that after the conclusion of A’22, June 22-25, we were advised that several attendees have reported testing positive for COVID-19.
We are moving quickly to collect information and will share additional facts as appropriate.
Please review the following guidance from Centers for Disease Control (CDC) for individuals who have come into close contact with someone with COVID-19."
I have never tested and never got the "miracle shots". Never stopped living normally. Got my cold and recovered. Still alive. Meanwhile, Fauci stopped living for 2 years, had 4 shots and still got serious Covid. Am I doing this wrong?
Stop thinking. You are not qualified to do independent thinking. Do you have a university certified document that allows you to use the brain? An open mind is a very dangerous organ . Tongue firmly in cheek ; yes you are definitely doing it all wrong. Where can we gather? the unwashed, unvaxed, unsick, deploreables?
Don't forget, only a gender-studies professor can determine what a man or woman is.
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Vaccination and weight loss are the only things that are going to “help” us? What about the studies showing low Vitamin D levels being a marker for adverse Covid effects? Getting Vitamin D levels above 50 should be everyone’s goal, which is not a tremendous feat.
Our elderly, those at highest risk are not provided Vitamin D testing by Medicare. Yet another failure of our medical system and a government that prefers to only kowtow to Big Pharma
I guess gargling and nose sanitation are taboo as well. Interesting, there is a classic poster from the 1918 Flu Epidemic. One of its pieces of advice was to gargle with salt water after being out in public. 100 years ago...
Forget the testing for D. Simply recommend 2000 units twice daily as our esteemed Dr Fauci does but won't recommend. Certainly those 4000 units aren't going to cause any harm and may be adequate for most. Done daily, it builds up over time. That along with mouth/nasal sanitation could help prevent infection. Not at all sure that these inexpensive tools advocated in the adverts wouldn't do much more over forcing expensive experimental drugs with known deficiencies.
Understand individuals are different, but a general recommendation of 4000 units daily would allow many to reduce deficiencies. This recent study https://www.uh.edu/news-events/stories/2022-news-articles/june-2022/06282022-vitamin-d-low-in-hispanic-black-adolescents-nursing-study.php suggests that these kids need supplements as well. Now that kids no longer go outside all day many need help. They will need those bones as they age.
try taking Calcifediol not the usual Cholecalciferol. it's more active, and equivalent to about 3 times as much Cholecalciferol
I've come to like and respect Dr. Prasad. But he's got a glaring blind spot here. He says we should get rid of all the home tests because they don't improve outcomes:
"There is no high quality evidence we are better off [with home tests]. To my knowledge, and anyone is free to correct me in the comments, there are zero cluster RCTs showing testing slows spread, or more importantly improves any meaningful outcome (such as number of people getting very sick), in ANY setting. This is the burden that pro-test people face. Prove it helps."
Good stuff.
BUT then he says, "Vaccines and weight loss are all we can do to lower our risk of getting very sick from covid. But we cannot avoid infection. COVID 19 vaccines currently offer such poor vaccine effectiveness against symptomatic disease and transmission that near total spread is inevitable. Then, variants will reinfect us many times over in our long lives. Halting this is not possible."
So he admits that the vaccines don't stop infection or transmission. Yes, true. But then he unequivocally says that vaccines and weight loss will keep you from getting very sick from Covid. *But there are no high quality cluster RCTs of the vaccines either!* They blew up the placebo arm! There is no control group. So they don't know if vaccines actually reduce hospitalizations and deaths because they're not comparing two groups, vaccinated and unvaccinated, and following them for an extended period of time. In his own words, *prove it.* Prove the vaccines do anything to improve Covid outcomes. There is no proof.
I wish he were consistent on this.
It's July 1st, 2022 and both the Canadian PM (Trudeau) as well as US President Biden have extended travel bans for unvaccinated travelers. My unvaccinated son-in-law, living in New Jersey (business) cannot visit my unvaccinated daughter who lives in Toronto and vice versa. What's going on here, is it pure politics or am I missing something?
Covid theater, probably. Like spraying down subway cars and requiring vax cards for events.
I would love to see your clinical evidence that the shots are reducing severe disease. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.06.28.22276926v1
I admire you and appreciate your willingness to speak out, but in all honesty, I can go with some of this but I cannot go with this notion that vaccines and weight loss are the only things that can help us with Covid. Covid is incredibly responsive to optimal vitamin D levels, other assorted vitamins, early treatment with off-label drugs, healthy cleansing diet, sunshine, fresh air, and yes, naturopathic treatment and herbal medicines, including nasal and throat treatments and sprays with providone iodine and/or essential oils, and more. Why would you say this while ignoring the glaring safety signals of these highly questionable, clearly experimental shots (with no long-term safety data) that are screaming at us from around the world?
You lost me at vaccines...
Good points Vinay, even though some folks could perhaps whine that "inductive backfilling was used by Dr. Prasad".
You seem to have left out one egregious "side benefit" of all the almost willy-nilly PCR testing game -- viz. the horrendously misleading, greatly publicized, bullshit reports in every state where the novel but nutty concept of "PCR test positivity rate" was ballyhooed over and over and over, and employed with zeal, yet was IN FACT a "conceived metric" whose actual legitimacy was never explained logically by anybody. How could this synthetic "measure" show anything dependable with regard to the tasks of: (a) Detecting accurately variations in reality or (b) Guiding day-to-day, rational public health reactions by a state health department? In my state (Minnesota) the top bureaucrat in the our department of health was at one point early in the pandemic seen on local TV in a news conference pleading with citizens, "We need people to come in and get tested right now. . . .let's wash out those positives and drive down our test positivity rate". This *astonishing statement* was actually made! Even soybean farmers our there in rural Minnesota hearing this might have also heard the damp plop-plop of something hitting the barn floor. This scenario occurred at a time when daily TPR values in Minnesota (10 per cent and up) were being deemed by the Big Cigars "way too high for comfort". In consequence, the "numerical evidence" (TPR numbers) automatically had triggered unpleasant, unpopular, and added legal restrictions by our gub-ment affecting adversely various business operations and public behaviors. This very revealing set of events I have just outlined actually transpired and I did not make it up -- and this was in a state that repeatedly is said to have "a high-quality public health enterprise". My attempts to seek clarification of how "TPR data" could rationally guide public health decision-making were never answered by anybody in or out of state government. God help us.
My office requires we test once a week. It’s going super well - 75% of my department is out this week with Covid.
I also noticed that the at home test kits they give us have a sticker that says “New Exp Date 11/30/2022 per FDA authorization” when the original exp date was May 2022. Now of course FDA expiration dates are extremely stupid anyways, but it just proves how desperate they are.
Wow. I completely agree with this! People are obsessed! I may have had covid a few weeks ago, didn’t even consider testing, followed the FLCCC protocol, and felt better in a few days.
We have to get away from it, but my friends tell me that the schools require it, and many employers too (I’m retired, thank God).
Thanks for a rational viewpoint, I’ll definitely be passing this on!
I also followed the FLCCC protocol (along with the rest of my immediate family of 5) and we all got better within a couple of days. Anecdotally, it works great and I seem to have fared far better than those who listened to the establishment experts. Are you aware of anyone who followed the FLCCC protocol and got really sick? Because I am not. I would be totally open to hearing from someone who says "I followed the FLCCC protocol and it didn't work at all. I think it's a fraud," but I haven't heard from that person yet. It sure would be great if they could run large RCTs of the actual FLCCC protocol, as opposed to fraudulent trials like TOGETHER.
Why in the world would you follow the FLCCC protocol if you did not know whether or not you actually had covid? Not saying it is a bad protocol, but just like with any medical intervention, should only be used when appropriate and necessary.
1) We definitely had covid, based on symptoms, exposure, and, yes, positive home tests;
2) The FLCCC protocol is actually safe;
3) even if we had some other viral infection, the FLCCC protocol seems like a reasonable intervention given the IVM has broad antiviral effects and is safer than Tylenol.
It would be great to have more and better evidence on this protocol, but given the extreme corruption in BigPharma and their regulatory pets, that just ain't gonna happen. So we have to make decisions with imperfect information. Such is life. In this instance, it all worked out well.
Sorry. Thought you said you did not test. I had mild COVID, tested positive at home, and treated with ivermectin. Your plan seems the same as mine.
I think you are correct about the Covid tests. However, optimal Vitamin D levels are a factor in adverse Covid effects. Even the Irish government has acknowledged this. See my video: https://mathewaldred.substack.com/p/vitamin-d-and-fake-news Also, is there not a problem with sticking to large scale placebo controlled randomized clinical trials that only the government can afford to fund? Do you see the problem?
Amen!!! Thank you for this!! I’ve been trying to get my extended family and friends to see this about testing but so many just want to continue testing all the time, before every gathering! It’s insane. I will gladly share this far and wide!
"older and thus a Paxlovid candidate" as in older and covid vaxxine candidate ( as in dr. Malone propaganda) ? You, people, need to clear this up as soon as possible, because if a poison is a poison, is not good for anyone, simple as that.
We are not and we will not be confused, because we are paying attention. People who want to get us confused are called manipulators. They never try to rid of confusions, they build their theories on them.
Yes, my son missed ten days of school and a week of his Little League season when he was 100% healthy, only because of quarantines protocols related to testing. Before this year, he had never missed a single day of school ever.
"Vaccines and weight loss are all we can do to lower our risk of getting very sick from covid."
Wrong. Weight loss is great, and anyone who is overweight should try to get back to a healthy weight for all sorts of reasons, but there is a whole cornucopia of nutriceuticals one can take that lower the risk of getting very sick from covid. Why pretend that the mountain of evidence proving this doesn't exist? Covid19 is an extremely treatable, low-cost-to-treat disease. The fact that there has been a well-financed, coordinated effort to hide this fact from the public is one of the major scandals of the Covid19 pandemic. https://c19early.com/
Had to test for the first time in order to get a green check on my phone from some company making money processing testing for convention attendance. Followed the instructions, tested within the prescribed 24 hour before convention window, photographed the negative test result, uploaded it to said company. Rife w/ opportunity to lie. Next day showed my check, picked up my badge, and then spent four days socializing with several thousand people at the convention and random people in the city before flying home.
Received this totally predictable and unactionable notice a week later:
"We what to make you aware that after the conclusion of A’22, June 22-25, we were advised that several attendees have reported testing positive for COVID-19.
We are moving quickly to collect information and will share additional facts as appropriate.
Please review the following guidance from Centers for Disease Control (CDC) for individuals who have come into close contact with someone with COVID-19."